They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.