Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.