I think I owe my life to cork soles.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right is doing; it should be taken without a thought, without a look, without a move of the facial muscles; the true physician should hardly be aware that the last friendly grasp of the hand has been made more precious by the touch of gold