"Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole."

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

"'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit. Will condescend to take a bit."

"I have always held the principle that a nation should be governed by laws, and not by the caprice of a monarch."

"The greatest wits, and the greatest fools, are equally innocent of the world."