There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

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

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.