This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.