The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

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

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

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.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.