There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.