The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.