Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.