Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

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

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

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.