The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.