I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

The best servant does his work unseen.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

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

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

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.