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.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

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.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.