Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

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.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.