The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.