But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.