Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.