Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

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.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.