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

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.