There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

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

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

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

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.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.