Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and varied applications, by extending it and deploying it. It is not words that they contribute: what they do is enrich their words, deepen their meanings and tie down their usage; they teach it unaccustomed rhythms, prudently though and with ingenuity.

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

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.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.