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.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

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

One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.