You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

Let us live, while we are alive!