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.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

History should be written as philosophy.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.