'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.