There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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

It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.