There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.