An index is a great leveller.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

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

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.