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

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Sit loosely in the saddle.

We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.