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

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.