The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.