All great art and literature is propaganda.

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

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.