It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.