There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.