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

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.