Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.

[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.