"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."

"A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely, to reconcile health with intemperance."

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."

"I calculate that the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I beli…"

"The virtue of a woman is often a greater torment to her husband than her vice."