The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.