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?

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.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

The end of man is action.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."