War should neither be feared nor provoked.

There is always something new out of Africa.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.

How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.