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

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

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

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

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

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.