No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever ha….

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass..

... one should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away..

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mout….

I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash..

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fon….

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest....

I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly..

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation..

Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, how….

What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of….

Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things wh….

The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; a….

Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse..

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit..

We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow..

Friendship is far more delicate than love..