No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms."

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.

Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.