Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

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.

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

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 lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.