“A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.”

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

The world wants to be deceived.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

He has gone over to the majority.

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

Haste is a poor counselor.

For when last need to desperation driveth, Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth.

The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.