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

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.