As leopard feels at home with leopard.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

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

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

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.