To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.