Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

We are generally more convinced by the reasons we discover on our own than by those given to us by others.

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

The only paradise is a lost paradise.