The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

The contact of two epidermises.