It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.

I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look.

The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.

My God, Jack - with a look like that, you two should just get a room. And try not to pick the one with a dead body next to it this time.

We are in this fairyland on sufferance

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

What I have to do from here is I have to do the best I can to carry on.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something and then when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.