We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

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

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.