"I have been for some years past, working upon a great work, which I intend to publish, and it is a complete refutation of all that hath ever been written upon the subject of government."

"The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a torrent of words."

"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."

"Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few."

"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."