Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father´s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world.""Nonsense, child; you´ll think your husband better.""Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural.

He was unique to her among men because he’s impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who’s nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

Man cannot choose his duties.