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

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.