If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.