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

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

[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!

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

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

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.

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