Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

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.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.