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.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

Money is a most important thing in the world.