To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

We should wash our dirty linen at home.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.