“All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.”
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.