A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

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.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.