“When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.”

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.

Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?

The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.

Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

Look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him,

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.