Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

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

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.