Custom doth make dotards of us all.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

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.

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.