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.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.