"The gentleman is a man of truth,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.”

“A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.”

“The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.”

“I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism - being surprised, and learning new stuff, but it also poses the biggest challenge to a writer's character.”

“Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.”

“A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character.”

“When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.”

“The innocent is the person who explains nothing”

“The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.”