“The attempts to heal enflame the fever more.”

“Those who do not speak the words of God with humility must be advised that when they apply medicine to the sick, they must first inspect the poison of their own infection, or else by attempting to heal others, they kill themselves.”

“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”

“No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear”

“The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.”

“Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.”

“Shivering in fever, weak, and parched to sand,
My ears, those entrances of word-dressed thoughts,
My pictured eyes, and my assuring touch,
Fell from me, and my body turned me forth
From its beloved abode: then I was dead;
And in my grave beside my corpse I sat,
In vain attempting to return”

“You only get to hesitate in the first attempt, it becomes easier the more you do it.”

“It is hard to understand why an attempt to get more of the national product for those who at present get least is to be dismissed as pandering to envy, while an attempt to tilt it the other way by securing more concessions for the discontented Conservative electors of Tonbridge is not denounced as rapacity, and why the one is manifestly more worthy than the other.”

“(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)”