Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.