"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."

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

"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, r…"

"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."

"Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion."