No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.

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

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.