Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.