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

I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash.

'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...

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.

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.

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

Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, however they may delight their tongues with talking of them.