A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

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.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.