Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

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

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

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.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.