The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

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