... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.