How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.