Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.