He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

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