If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

Writing is the supreme solace.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

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