I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.