To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

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.

Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.