"When beasts could speak (the learned say They still can do so every day), It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men."

"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: s…"

"Gold defiles with frequent touch; There's nothing fouls the hand so much."

"The two great masters of the world are reason and passion."

"We are told that the world is a great Bedlam, where the lunatics are the majority, and the few who are in their right senses are shut up by the rest."