"The common people love to be amused."

"The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it."

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

"The aim of art is to represent life in its forms and colors."

"Doctors are just like lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers only rob you, doctors rob you and then kill you."