"I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."

"There are very few people, I imagine, who have not, at some time or other, been in love with some object or other."

"It is a most remarkable thing that the most important events of our lives are often brought about by the most trivial causes."

"I grieve to say that I know of no country where the practice of dentistry is so atrocious as in England."

"I have always been of the opinion that the best thing a man can do is to keep his own counsel."