That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

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

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.