Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.

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

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.