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.

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

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.

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.