Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

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.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.