A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

Do your work, but do your thing.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

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.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Calmness is always godlike.