Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.