I have heard of daydreams – is she in a daydream now? Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am sure they do not see it – her sight seems turned in, gone down into her heart: she is looking at what she can remember, I believe; not at what is really present.

Is there any way that two people from faraway places can ever really understand each other's daydrems?

When it comes to dreams and fancies and castles in the air, I have the soul of a millionaire.

ما أذكره أنّني كنت يوميّاً أحلم بتحريرها, أقول في نفسي أخاف أن تتحرّر و أنا في المدرسة و لا أعرف!! ثمّ أعود لأجيب عن سؤالي بنفسي . . بالتأكيد سأرى الرّايات و الأنوار تزيّن الشوارع عندها سأعرف بالتحرير . . الآن أضحك من نفسي و أفكاري!!

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.