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

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.