Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to allow them that which they are conscious they do not possess. Thus lord Hardwicke valued himself more upon being a great minister of state, which he certainly was not, than upon being a great magistrate, which he certainly was.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.