Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never.

The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.