The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Who ever saw one physician approve of another’s prescription, without taking something away, or adding something to it?

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Flow many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.