It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

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.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.