Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

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

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.