Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.