The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
A man lives by believing something.
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
The whole past is the procession of the present.