The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.