Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.