The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The best servant does his work unseen.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!