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.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.