Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

To have more, you must first be more.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

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

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.