In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.