You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

Altogether too many sheep