Bathsua Makin Quotes

A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.

To ask too much is the way to be denied all.

Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.

These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.