Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

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