Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

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