"I could wish that some of our young divines would not think it beneath them to consult the most celebrated plays and romances, as well as the most approved poets and orators."

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."

"It is as impossible to please all men as to make a coat for the moon."

"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense."

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