Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

Life is what you portrait it!

We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

Art rides in on pleasure.