Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

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

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

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

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.