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

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

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.