Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

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.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.