There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

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

Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.