There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.