The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.

Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.