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

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.