The best servant does his work unseen.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.