All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.