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.

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

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.