The most universal quality is diversity.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.