A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

Make your vacation your vocation.

For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

The funniest things are the forbidden.