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

Many a truth is told in jest.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

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.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.