"Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse."

"Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable."

"I have always held the principle that a nation should be governed by laws, and not by the caprice of a monarch."

"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it."

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."