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.

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

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.