Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

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.

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

Every noble work is at first impossible.