It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.