Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

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.