What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.