Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

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.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?