Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

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.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Worship is transcendent wonder.

A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.