In a certain sense all men are historians.

The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

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?

History is the distillation of rumour.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.