Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.