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

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.