Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

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.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

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.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.