Thinking is movement confined to the brain

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

Facts in books statistics in encyclopedias the ability to use them in men's heads.

No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.