“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals”

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable”

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love ”

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself”

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens ”