No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

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.

The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.