“To spend for destruction ten times more than for instruction, such is the fashion in our time; and men seriously regard themsleves as rational beings!”

“If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.”

“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”

“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”

“It is not possible to set out in the Christian profession with a more instructive or impressive idea than this — Life is the seed-time for eternity.”

“Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: 'This time I will burn out all the animal; this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' After all, what is ten years? Men have been a hundred thousand in the making.”

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”

“The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness, than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.”

“I love you, Elizabeth… and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.”

“A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university … This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.”