The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

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.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.