That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

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