I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

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 cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.