The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.