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

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.