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

We live by reposing trust in each other.

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

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.

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.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.