"To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort."

“A good doctor pursues his calling without any regard to a bad result. Otherwise, teaching in medical school might be called into question and where would we be then?”

“A smart daughter ought not to examine her future husband too closely. She ought to consider it a pleasure to find one agreeable to her father.”

“I don't know any more than you what the future will hold. But my point of view is different. You see despair and I see cause for hope. I read the future in a way that is more agreeable than you do.”

“The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.”

“I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.”

“It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.”