Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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.

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?