Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.