When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.