“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them
“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
“It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be
“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.