"If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient."

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."

"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."

"To live is to function. That is all there is in living."

"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived"

"His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."

"This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them."

"PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope."

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

"'Where did you put it?' 'Put what?' 'You know?' 'Where do you think?' 'Oh.'"

"Some of the best advice I ever received was 'Man, that was terrible'."