As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.