"A nice man is a man of nasty ideas."

"I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth."

"I never saw, hear, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country."

"Eloquence, as well as the other fine arts, must be cultivated with care."

"I am not for imposing any thing on the clergy, but for leaving them to their own discretion."