Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place

Extreme orthodoxy betrays by its very frenzy that the poison of skepticism has entered the soul of the church; for men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

The men you see waiting in the lobbies of doctors’ offices are, in a vast majority of cases, suffering through poisoning caused by an excess of food.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

The results of science, in the form of mechanism, poison gas, and the yellow press, bid fair to lead to the total downfall of our civilization.

To be proud of virtue is to poison yourself with the antidote.

It can poison you if you have success and you’re not a successful person

Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.