"I have been for some years past, working upon a great work, which I intend to publish, and it is a complete refutation of all that hath ever been written upon the subject of government."

"It is a maxim that a man who has made his fortune, may do what he pleases."

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

"It is the folly of too many, to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."

"We are told that the world is a great Bedlam, where the lunatics are the majority, and the few who are in their right senses are shut up by the rest."