Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.