We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.