It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.