These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

I want to meet my God awake.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.