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.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

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.

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".