Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.