Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.