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

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.