Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.