Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.