There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.