Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.