“Now, very few [physicians] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.”

“You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.”

“A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies.”

“There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment”

“All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.”

“It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world.
- Dr. Grief”

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”

“Crowd men have no sense of humor. It is very difficult to educate solemn and opinionated people.”

“There are very few men who do not reckon the cost to themselves of a system of taxes before approving it.”

“Common sense is the very antipodes of science.”