"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."

"The greatest inventions were at first but the objects of ridicule."

"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..."

"There are few things more to be lamented than that a man who has got an estate, makes not a better use of it for the good of his family, and to the advantage of the public."

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