There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.