The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.