Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.