God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.