A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

Well begun is half done.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Everyone honors the wise.