“These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.”

“One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.”

“I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor...”

“I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.”

“To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of the many things to be ignored. His was a calming influence.”

“Knowledge is power; and power is best shared among friends.”

“Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.”