The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman

Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.