The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Bravely! said he; for I of late have been Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.

In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madded to crime?

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter! . . . . All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!

Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

The relationship is the communication bridge between people. -Alfred Kadushin.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne.

But as for all the rest, There's hardly one who stands the Artist's test. The Artist is a rare, rare breed. There were but two, forsooth, In all me time and The Other One was Booth.

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly . The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.