"Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison"

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others"

"Live or die, but don't poison everything"

"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die"

"I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution"

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison"

"I think that testosterone is a rare poison"

"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare"

"The dose makes the poison"

"Superstition is the poison of the mind"

"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain"