Altogether too many sheep

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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.