Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long..

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery..

We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is cons….

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end..

No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspec….

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of ….

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man..

Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations..

Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, ….

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us..

Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To me, pretty good is a linguistic ….

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity..

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to a….

Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin ….

Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us th….

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague..

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies..

Naught so sweet as melancholy..

Out of too much learning become mad..

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion..

He is only fantastical that is not in fashion..