It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.