Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.