It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.