He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.