A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

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!

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.