Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Most women have no characters at all.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.