A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated, are simple, childish toys compared with that most marvelously wrought mechanism, the human body. Its parts are far more delicate, and their mutual adjustments infinitely more accurate, than are those of the most perfect chronometer ever made.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.