You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.