To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

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

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.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.