A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.