A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.

Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

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.