Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

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

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.