"I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the public good of my country, by advan…"

"It is a miserable thing to be a man of sense in a country where the generality of the people are fools."

"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."

"The two great masters of the world are reason and passion."

"The commonest things are the most useful; which shows the wisdom of God, who has made them common."