-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

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.

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