O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.