“Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.”

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American writer

“The capture of Simbirsk, my home town, is a wonderful tonic, the best treatment for my wounds. I feel a new lease of life and energy.”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

“There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi

“Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“Peoples of the earth, you have all been poisoned.' Convert all available stocks of morphine to apomorphine. Chemists, work round the clock on variation and synthesis of the apomorphine formulae.”

William S. Burroughs book Nova Express

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.”

John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician

“He is a shrewd, Napoleonic, short man, who is very affable, but as poisonous as hell with his affability.”

Erhard Milch (1892–1972) German general

“I had a hell of a lot of will power! A hell of a will power, you understand? And it was very useful to me.”

Jeanne Calment (1875–1934) French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history

“Ah, the Wonderful World of Camping - may it rot in hell.”

P. C. Cast book Divine By Mistake