... 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.

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

Friendship is far more delicate than love.

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.

[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!

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