To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.