I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.