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

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

"What is the purpose of art? To prepare for death, to make us live better."

"The aim of fiction is to show what man is like, not to teach him what he ought to be."

"The world is full of fools, and those who aren’t fools are cowards."