A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

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

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.