It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

Nature never gives everything at once.