An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

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.