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.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.