I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

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

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.