"Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out."

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

"Happiness is not in money, but in the process of making it."

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

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