The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.