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.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

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 want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.