Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.