Quote from : The Life of Thomas Paine, Author of Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, Letter to the Addressers Book

When returned from Italy he called on Mr. and invited him to dinner: in the course of his rapturous address to him he declared that a statue of gold ought to be erected to him in every city in the universe, assuring him that he always slept with his book 'Rights of Man' under his pillow and conjured him to honor him with his correspondence and advice.