"When beasts could speak (the learned say They still can do so every day), It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men."

"I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without salt."

"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."

"The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a torrent of words; for whoever is master of an art, and hath a proper fund of materials, and a suitable …"

"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."