[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

Fools are without number.

Your library is your paradise.

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

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.

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.