I am become sensible of a great advantage your profession has over most others, that, to the close of your life, you can be always doing good to mankind: whereas a retired politician is like a broken down courser, unfit for the turf, and good for little else. I am endeavoring to recover the...

my trinity of the three greatest men the world had ever produced.

I have the same good opinion of mr Adams which I ever had. I know him to be an honest man, an able one with his pen, and he was a powerful advocate on the floor of Congress. he has been alienated from me by belief in the wretched forgeries lying suggestions, contrived for electioneering purposes,...

altho’ much of a sceptic in the practice of medecine, I read with pleasure it’s ingenious theories.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk, & restorative cordial.