Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

Necessity is often the spur to genius.