I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.