If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?