Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants..

For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from a number ….

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of t….

It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which….

A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exactin….

The surest method against scandal is live it down in well-doing..

I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves..

My poor are my best patients. God pays for them..

The great seal of truth is simplicity..