Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.

She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.