"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?"

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

"Finance, like time, devours its own children."

"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue."

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

"If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now."

"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."