There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.