Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.