Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.