Everything has its poetry. 94
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.
لا أحب الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
