Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.