Music exalts each joy allays each grief expels diseases softens every pain subdues the rage of poison and the plague.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Every article I wrote in those days every speech I made is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

Well the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war is not a disease not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Good humor is the health of the soul sadness is its poison.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion jealousy and hatred as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.