Every woman is at heart a rake.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

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

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

A field of glory is a field for all.