"It is my purpose in writing these Memoirs to adhere rigidly to truth, at least in its essence. Should I succeed in th…"

"The more a writer deviates from simplicity, the less sincere he appears."

"There is something very dry in family history, because no one cares for other people's relations."

"Nothing that has been and has died out, will be revived. The skeleton, an osseous Apollo, will remain, and that is all."

"In those days, and long after, an English clergyman dressed like a gentleman; he now wears a black livery, and he loo…"

"... Mr. Nussey, the king's apothecary, ... whom I knew very intimately later in life, told me that the king confided …"

"Dr. Thomas Young, the illustrious inventor of the Undulatory Theory of Light, was then a physician at St. George's. I…"

"It may be boasted that free-trade in physic came before free-trade in corn, and from that time medical science began …"

"If one looks back, one perceives that the majority of our poetic authors owed their success to patrons who made their…"

"I remember well the time when no gentleman was supposed to smoke; the habit was fit only for the vulgarian."