"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description."

"The only way to retrieve the credit of the nation, is to pay off the public debts."

"As for yourself, whom I have the honour to know, you are a person of distinction, and would have been an ornament to any court in Europe."

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

"And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more…"