Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.