A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.