a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.