The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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.

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

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"