A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.