It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.