We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

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

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species; and, therefore, though he will not be less sensible of pain by being told that others are equally tormented, he will at least be freed from the temptation of seeking, by perpetual changes, that ease which is no where to be found, and though his diseases still continue, he escapes the hazard of exasperating it by remedies.