The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

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.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

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

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