Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Take the tone of the company you are in...

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.