The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think..

And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling..

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth..

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the w….

Cupid "the little greatest enemy.".

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future..

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old..

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the fac….

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor..

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad..

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air..

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light..

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers..

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of g….

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness..

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day..

America is the only place where man is full-grown!.

Science is the topography of ignorance..

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads..

Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side..