The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The pest of society is egotists.