But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

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

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.