“In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.”
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Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
