"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."

"Thus Dædalus and Ovid too, That man's a blockhead have confessed, Powel and Stretch the hint pursue; Life is the farce, the world a jest."

"The difference between a madman and a sane man is that the madman is in a minority."

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

"For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of papists, with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principal breeders of the nation as well as our dangerous enemies..."