 In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. |
| A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. |
| Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy. |
| In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. |
| We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. |
| Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. |
| Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. |
| We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. |
| Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. |
