"The three grand enemies of human happiness are public envy, civil discord, and religious faction."

"I have always been a great admirer of the proverb, 'Necessity is the mother of invention'."

"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."

"Argument is the worst of all instruments for the discovery of truth."

"It is computed, that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end."