Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.