If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.