There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.