To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.