Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

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.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

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