Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

But what I do I do because I like to do.