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

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.