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.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.