"I calculate that the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I beli…"

"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."

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

"The only difference between a wise man and a fool is, that the wise man knows himself to be a fool, and the fool knows himself to be wise."

"The more years increase, the more does my hatred of human nature increase."