I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Books, the children of the brain.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

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.