Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

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