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

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.