Hope is itself a species of happiness.

Grief is a species of idleness.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.

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