Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

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

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

The best servant does his work unseen.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Have the courage to act instead of react.