What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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.