Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

There is not a whole lot of fun in medicine but there is a whole lot of medicine in fun.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.