So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

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

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

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.