a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.