Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.