Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

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

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.