Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."