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

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

Every movement reveals us.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

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