It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

We have power over nothing except our will.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.