"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."

"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind."

"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite."

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"

"I don't want to see the uncut version of anything."

"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."

"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress."

"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions."

"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest."

"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the final hour of separation."

"To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self"

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."