In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

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

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.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.