Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate between ...them. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At a tavern hereabouts the hostler greeted our horse as an old acquaintance, though he did not remember the driver.... Every man t...o his trade. I am not acquainted with a single horse in the world, not even the one that kicked me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A clergyman, again, can hardly ever allow himself to look facts fairly in the face. It is his profession to support one side; it i...s impossible, therefore, for him to make an unbiased examination of the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see the ...self, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »