It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.