God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.