To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.