People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

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

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.