Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name, ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity enforced by authority and recommended by custom.