He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.