But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

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.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.