Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.