Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

there is evil everywhere under the sun.

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.