To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

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.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.