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.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

History is the distillation of rumour.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.