If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.