Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

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

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.