Quotes about fellow-creatures (7 Quotes)





    To overawe, or intimidate, or, when we cannot persuade with reason, to resist with fortitude, are the occupations which give its most animating exercise, and its greatest triumphs, to a vigorous mind and he who has never struggled with his fellow-creatures, is a stranger to half the sentiments of mankind.

    Over and over again in my past experience among my perishing fellow-creatures, the members of the notoriously infidel profession of Medicine had stepped between me and my mission of mercyon the miserable pretence that the patient wanted quiet, and that the disturbing influence of all others which they most dreaded, was the influence of Miss Clack and her Books.



    I am one by myself, one, said Mortimer, high up an awful staircase commanding a burial-ground, and I have a whole clerk to myself, and he has nothing to do but look at the burial-ground, and what he will turn out when arrived at maturity, I cannot conceive. Whether, in that shabby rook's nest, he is always plotting wisdom, or plotting murder whether he will grow up, after so much solitary brooding, to enlighten his fellow-creatures, or to poison them is the only speck of interest that presents itself to my professional view.



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