All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.