Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.