Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her.
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements. . . the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.
I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.
Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.
Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count.