I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.