All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

All true work is sacred.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

The great soul of this world is just.