Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.