When a man stops to ponder his physical or moral condition, he generally finds he is ill.

What one knows, one sees.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath o…

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentia…