Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.