Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Different subjects and different affairs are arranged in my head as in a cupboard. When I wish to interrupt one train of thought, I shut that drawer and open a…

Every soldier carries a marshal's baton in his pack.

Death may expiate faults, but cannot repair them.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thus we see that the second and third children have a very good chance to live through the first year. Children arriving later have less and less chance, until…