At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.