“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.”

“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians—I will not speak of my own trade—soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell...”

“The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.”

“A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.”

“So Geographers in Afric-mapsWith Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;And o'er uninhabitable DownsPlace Elephants for want of Towns”

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

“I heartily hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, ans so forth.”