The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.