There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.