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

"The virtue of a woman is often a greater torment to her husband than her vice."

"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."

"I am not for imposing any thing on the clergy, but for leaving them to their own discretion."

"Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired."