"We shall die, and they will bury us, and people will forget us. But we shall leave behind us our children, our thoughts, our work."

"Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."

"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

"The common people love to be amused."

"Perhaps the most interesting of all things is the human mind."