"I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth."

"It is a miserable thing to be a dependent, and to have no other resource but the favor of great men."

"Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken."

"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again."

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