Karim Seddiki

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Your dreams may have shattered, but that doesn’t mean they are over. They can still be turned into a mosaic of success.

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?… What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.