There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.