Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.