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

“We have chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.”

“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.”

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

“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.”

“take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool...”