My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

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.

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.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.