Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.