Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.
The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.