Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

I work as my father drank.

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.