A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

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

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

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