Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

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

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures