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

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

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

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.