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

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.