The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

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.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.