"how unkind it was of Noah now I have mentioned his name to suffer such a brood of Vermin to get a birth in the Ark"

"I hope, some day, we shall all be slaves to nothing but the laws."

"I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck, and sit like patience on a monument whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof am…"

"To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones."

"It is to be regretted, that the long experience of the world has not yet been able to extinguish the dangerous flame of party animosities; or to inspire the inhabitants of civilised countries with a m…"