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

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.