There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.