Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.