We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.