Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

Without Greek studies there is no education.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.