The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

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

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.