Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

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

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

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.