The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

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.

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

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.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.