Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other

Except for two or three older writers, all modern literature seems to me not literature but some sort of handicraft, which exists only so as to be encouraged, though one is reluctant to use its products.

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. Though it is irregular, it is less boring this way, and besides, neither of them loses anything through my infidelity.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.