A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Topic
Osler's distinction — it is not about seeing much but seeing wisely — sets the standard. Keats compares a life to a mansion with most doors still shut; Disraeli builds thought from action. Burroughs insists that time becomes sacred through being lived, not observed. Goethe urges that cherries and strawberries be tasted by those who have actually eaten them, not described by adults who remember the theory. The collection favors direct encounter over secondhand knowledge — it is suspicious of people who know everything about a subject except what it feels like from the inside. These quotes are most useful when you are deciding whether to read about something or simply go and do it.
A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
It is never too late to be wise.
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.