Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.