The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.