The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.