I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself

An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.