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

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

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.

The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.