The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.