You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.