The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.