To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

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.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

We only understand that which already is within us.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.