If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.