Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.