The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.

Everything can be borne except contempt.

Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.

The true charter of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

In the midst of all the doubts which we have discussed for 4000 years in 4000 ways, the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.