There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?