It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

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

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

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

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