Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.