Necessity never made a good bargain.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.