Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humani….

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for..

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do..

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we ar….

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in ….

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!.

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time..

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well..

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt..

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it..

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope..

Young children are such nasty little beasts!.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools..

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least..

The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or th….

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome..

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence,….

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and ….

A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than….

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has be….

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people..