Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.