“As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”

“If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.”

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

“Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.”

“When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.”

“Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.”

“Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.”