There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

True friendship is never serene.

When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.