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

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.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

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