Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never..

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites..

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless again….

Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through th….

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness..

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within..

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain m….

Feelings change facts..

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it..

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves ….

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar ….

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone..

In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of ….

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psych….

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make..

all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better th….

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them..

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds..

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them..

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed..

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though someti….