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 judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.