We dont receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. – Marcel Proust
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. – Marcel Proust
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. – Marcel Proust
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. – Marcel Proust
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. – Lord Chesterfield