Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

The great and the mighty that use their assets and power to subjugate people are demonstrating oppression.

It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.

It smelled of oily flowers, like the worn pillowcases of long-ago lovers.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

Christ is made the sure foundation

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.