The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

Lies exist only to be extinguished.

The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.