The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.