The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Thought will not work except in silence.

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.