Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

ليس لنا أن نتطلع إلى هدفٍ يلوح لنا باهتاً من بعد ، وإنما علينا أن ننجز ما بين أيدينا من عمل واضح بيِّن.

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

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.