With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

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

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.