"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." — Henry James

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process

To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

The world loves a spice of wickedness

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise

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