bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

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

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.

Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.