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

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

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

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.