But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

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

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

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

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.