"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."

"Fine words! I wonder where you stole them."

"The greatest inventions were at first but the objects of ridicule."

"I have been for some years past, as I hope to be for some years to come, a constant visitor of the sick, and a constant observer of the dying."

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."