Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

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.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

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.