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

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.