"Thus Cynical Men, who out of Pride of their own Parts disdain Company, and can no more endure Conversation than Owls the Day-Light, like Gold in the Bowels of the Earth, their Parts are useless and good for nothing, who cannot without Offence walk the Publick Ways; they are Saints indeed in private, and live only to God and to themselves; but being call'd forth into common Life, they are like Bats in the Sun, and utterly ignorant of Publick Affairs."
Miscellaneous Essays
<u>Miscellaneous Essays</u> (London: Printed for Jonas Browne, 1715). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004895801.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;