Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows dont understand is that you must get at a man through his own religio…

In calm retrospect we can appreciate better the disastrous effects of the poison of falsehood, whether officially, semi-officially, or privately manufactured. …

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines…