We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

I want to meet my God awake.