I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives