No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

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

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

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 only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.