Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.