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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
[ Manners ]
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
[ Health ]
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
[ Prejudice ]
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All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
[ Equality ]
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In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others.
[ Military ]
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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
[ Fashion ]
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We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
[ Respectability ]
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Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
[ Doctors ]
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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
[ Doctors ]
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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
[ Doctors ]
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A witty saying proves nothing.
[ Speech ]
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Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
[ Animals ]
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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
[ Boredom ]
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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
[ Taxes ]
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In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
[ Enemies ]
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
[ Pride ]
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
[ Problems ]
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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
[ Spirituality ]
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Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.
[ Argument ]
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