As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.