No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.