If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.