A bully is a coward turned inside out.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

For I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

Or did the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time.

Years and sins are always more than owned.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

If you find a four-leaf clover, it means you have entirely too much time on your hands.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.