I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.