“How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital”

“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough”

“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create”

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”

“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock”

“You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float”