"Do you know what a pessimist is? " "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. "

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.