“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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