Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.