What is the strongest cure?--Victory.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.