'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

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

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.