Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.