There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.

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

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.