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.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.