Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
The only certainty is uncertainty
How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
Hope is a working-man's dream.
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
There is always something new out of Africa.
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.
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