"I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power."

"Diabetes is caused by melancholy."

"Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding."

"Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit."