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

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.