A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

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