"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."

"And it is to be hoped that no gentleman will be so uncivil as to refuse to dine upon a child who has been so well fattened."

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

"I never saw, hear, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country."

"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."