To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.

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