“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.”

“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”

“When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.”

“A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.”

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”

“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”

“Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.”

“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”

“And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.”