People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

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.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.