I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.