Medicine: "Your money and your life!

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.