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

We must cultivate our own garden.

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.