God! How Men Of Letters

Do You Know What Astonished Me The Most In This World? The Inability Of Force To Create Anything.

I Am Conquered Less By Fortune Than By The Egotism And Ingratitude Of My Companions In Arms.

Men Are Led By Trifles.

My Dominion Ends Where That Of Conscience Begins.

Muhammad Was A Great Man, An Intrepid Soldier; With A Handful Of Men He Triumphed At The Battle Of Bender (sic); A Great Captain, Eloquent, A Great Man Of State, He Revived His Fatherland And Created A New People And A New Power In The Middle Of Arabia.