Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

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

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

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

Have common sense and stick to the point.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.