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.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

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.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.