A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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

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

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.