To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.