Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.