Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.