The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

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