I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

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.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

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.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.