The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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