The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit