“One idea lights a thousand candles.”

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”

“An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”

“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”

“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”