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

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.