Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.