The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty.
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.