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.

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

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.