A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!