Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.