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

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

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.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.