Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.