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

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.