Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.