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

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.