Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.