Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

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.

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.

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.