When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

This long disease, my life.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

Education forms the common mind.

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

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.