A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

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

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.