An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.