A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.