The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.