We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.