I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.
“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?”
“It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.”