The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it