"Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives."

"Hell is to drift; heaven is to steer."

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

"A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care."

"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."

"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true."

"Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"

"The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition."

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

"Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it."

"The novel we sit down to write, and the one we end up writing may be very different, just as the Jesus we grasp and the Jesus who grasps us may also differ."

"He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire."