It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.