When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.