One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.