The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

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

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.