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

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.

Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him.