Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

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

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.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.