But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.