There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.