Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

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

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain