"The two great masters of the world are reason and passion."

"A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely, to reconcile health with intemperance."

"We are told that the world is a great Bedlam, where the lunatics are the majority, and the few who are in their right senses are shut up by the rest."

"A nice man is a man of nasty ideas."

"The virtue of a woman is often a greater torment to her husband than her vice."