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

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.