Time has only a relative existence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.