He was a poet

(Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.)

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week.

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.