History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

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

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.