Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its presence.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.