We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.