It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.