If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

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

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.