"I desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it …"

"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."

"The greatest felicity of life is to be employed in a work, to which one is fitted by nature."

"As for yourself, whom I have the honour to know, you are a person of distinction, and would have been an ornament to any court in Europe."

"We are told that the world is a great Bedlam, where the lunatics are the majority, and the few who are in their right senses are shut up by the rest."