On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

What is life, but one long risk?

don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.