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.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.