A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.