The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft