You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.