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

- Bathsua Makin

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

- Bathsua Makin

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

- Bathsua Makin

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.

- Bathsua Makin

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

- Bathsua Makin