When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

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

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

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.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.