It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.