The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

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.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

A noble book! all men's book!