In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.