All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

There are remedies for all things but death.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.