There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.