"As a literary monument the Koran thus stands by itself, a production unique in Arabic literature, having neither fore…"

"But Islam has a still further service to render to the cause of humanity. It stands after all nearer to the real East…"

"That his [Muhammad's] reforms enhanced the status of women in general by contrast with the anarchy of pre-Islamic Ara…"

"The West, at bottom, is a form of society, rather than an area. It is the term applied to the region whose social con…"

"American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the …"

"He who with his whole heart believes in Jesus as the Son of God is thereby committed to much else besides. He is comm…"

"Sing thy armes (Bellona) and the man's Whose mighty deeds out-did great Tamberlan's."

"Wild mares' milk nurst him on the mountaines' gorse, Which gave him strength and stomach like a horse; Goats' flesh m…"

"Thy immortality Neptune thou must resigne, if I come thither: One sea may not containe us both together."

"Nor waves nor winds could fright him with the motion Who thought he could containe and pisse an ocean."