"God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible"

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"