Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.