Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!