This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.