Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.