There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

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.