When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

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

She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.