Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

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.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Lies exist only to be extinguished.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.