Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.