I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

[Science is] the literature of truth.