It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.