Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.

All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

A witty saying proves nothing.

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.