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.

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.