"The three grand enemies of human happiness are public envy, civil discord, and religious faction."

"As for yourself, whom I have the honour to know, you are a person of distinction, and would have been an ornament to any court in Europe."

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen."

"I have been for some years past, as I hope to be for some years to come, a constant visitor of the sick, and a constant observer of the dying."

"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit."