A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

- Axel Munthe

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever

- Axel Munthe

I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful …

- Axel Munthe

A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not …

- Axel Munthe

I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!

- Axel Munthe

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

- Axel Munthe

Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

- Axel Munthe

The soul needs more space than the body.

- Axel Munthe

Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tu…

- Axel Munthe