Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.