The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

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

We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

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