There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

The genuine essence of truth never dies.