I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

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.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.