“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. ”

“Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.”

“My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.”

“The Doctor: Doctor Song, you've got that face on again.River: What face?The Doctor: The "He's hot when he's clever" face.River: This is my normal face.The Doctor: Yes it is.River: Oh, shut up.The Doctor: Not a chance.”

“Ever eating, never cloying,All-devouring, all-destroyingNever finding full repast,Till I eat the world at last.”

“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”

“When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.”