Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.