Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right is doing; it should be taken without a thought, without a look, without a move of the facial muscles; the true physician should hardly be aware that the last friendly grasp of the hand has been made more precious by the touch of gold