Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... 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.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.