About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

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

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.