Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.