"The greatest crime is to be poor."

"I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites."

"All belief of matter of fact or real existence is derived merely from some object present to the memory or senses, and a customary conjunction betwixt that and some other object."

"The passion of love is a very odd compound."

"It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thou…"