Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

This is England, " he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

I don't like being preachy. I think using fun and humor is an excellent way to make people think.

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.