The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?