Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

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

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

He endearing elegance of female friendship.