Stimulate the phagocytes.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.