"The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a torrent of words."

"For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of papists, with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principal breeders of the nation as well as our dangerous enemies..."

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

"Although avarice is the most sordid of all vices, yet it is the least scandalous."

"Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light."