Every Muslim must rise to defend his religion. The wind of faith is blowing.
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.
There are two reasons for drinking wine. . . when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. . . prevention is better than cure.
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
. . . where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.
I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.
I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.
Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.