It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

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

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?