Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men.