“A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.”

“He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.”

“and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring”

“An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.”

“He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries.For medicine is an eternal quest for reasons - causes that explain effects.Science cannot comprehend a miracle.”

“in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality.”