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.

The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.

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.

... one should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away.

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

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.

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.