To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.