Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.