Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

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.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.