Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

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.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Time steals away without any inconvenience.

Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.