Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.