If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.