A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

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.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.