Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."

Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls.

"The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all,
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through a microscope."

"I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum,
because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em."

"Physicians of the utmost fame,
Were called at once; but when they came
They answered, as they took their fees,
'There is no Cure for this Disease.'"