The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

No good deed goes unpunished.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.