The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

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

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.