The desire to write grows with writing.

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.