No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

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.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.