Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.